Jennifer Fishkin, Jared Kasner

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CreditFred Marcus

Nov. 8, 2015

Jennifer Grace Fishkin, a daughter of Barbara Greystone Fishkin of Manhattan and Elliot I. Fishkin of Tenafly, N.J., is to be married Sunday evening to Jared Ross Kasner, a son of Karen Spar Kasner and Jay B. Kasner of Manhattan. Rabbi Gordon Tucker is to officiate at the Pierre hotel in Manhattan.

The bride, 27, who will be taking her husband’s name, is a vice president helping to manage projects in the compliance division at Citigroup in Long Island City, Queens. She graduated from Cornell and received a Master of Arts in international relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, a division of Johns Hopkins University. She is on the board of AJC Access NY, a young leadership program involved in global Jewish advocacy.

Her mother is a physician assistant at the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital in Manhattan. Her father is the owner of Innovative Audio Video Showrooms, a retailer of music and home automation systems, as well as home theaters, in Manhattan.

The groom, also 27, is an associate specializing in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization at the Manhattan law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and received his law degree from Fordham.

His mother is a trustee of UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, both in Manhattan. She is also on the board of the JCC Mid-Westchester in Scarsdale, N.Y. His father is a senior partner and the chairman of the national securities litigation practice in the Manhattan law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He is a trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan and a trustee of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

The couple met in 2011 on a blind date in Washington, while he was working for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the New York Democrat, and she was in graduate school there. In 2014, he proposed in front of the New York Public Library while a choir sang holiday songs on the steps.